DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Two fruits said to cause vitamin deficiency (8)

6 Slags off tumbler (5) 10 That solution is kept in the baby basin (7) 11 Skin-deep passage inside pig (7)

12 Carries rat tail between the digits (5)

13 Marked a little too much to be in deficit (9)

14 Took off the blubber and grazed around the eye (7) 16 Small family conceals a great deal of wreckage (7) 17 Thinner clothing for the right trainee (7)

19 Female backed demand for varnish (7)

21 General shape enclosing court? (9)

23 Plants around Court One (5)

24 Young bird may turn shy (7)

25 Needle ‘Yes’ members to wrap up band (7)

26 Trunk road heading into clouds of soot (5)

27 None maimed and depleted of strength should be elevated (8)

DOWN

2 Give the right to name a book (7)

3 International leader cuts off sudden attack (5) 4 Centrepiece and border I’m made to stitch (9) 5 Publication for children (5) 6 Organised recreation on the showy side (9)

7 A little laser treatment makes her really attentive (3,4)

8 Wish engine’s cam made equipment for dressmakers (6,8)

9 One totally conservative piece of information is quite pleasing! (1,3,2,3,5)

15 No airman’s trained in the country (3,6) 16 Australian beer’s now available for the ward (6,3) 18 Current cures contrariness of informer (7) 20 Permit to break silence (7)

22 Dance music job disheartened uncle (5) 23 Some corn contains a registered substitute for chocolate (5)

Yesterday’s solutions:

Across: - 1 Worm. 3 Melancholy. 10 Risotto. 11 Marsala. 12 Herbalist.

13 Ilion. 14 Plangent. 15 Candid. 18 Fleets. 19 Misnomer. 22 Ideas.

24 Even money. 25 Baghdad. 26 Special. 27 Easterlies. 28 Envy.

Down: - 1 Worship. 2 Resurface. 4 Emotions. 5 Admits. 6 Cardinal number. 7 Okapi. 8 Yearned. 9 Straight as a die. 16 Dimension. 17 Cineaste. 18 Frisbee. 20 Royally. 21 Feudal. 23 Edges.